[ericlevine]

That's very good of Google to release the new maps app before the end of the holiday shopping season. If I were an Android executive at Google, I'd be fuming that they're providing a workaround to the broken software of their biggest competitor going into such an important season for selling phones.

[dubcanada]

What does that have to do with anything? Google is going to sell the exact same amount of phones with or without Google Maps on iOS.